This sequel is two bo-'Ring'
By JENNIFER PALMBERG
“The Ring Two” is what most sequels are: terrible. Its prequel,
“The Ring,” which was suspenseful and eerie, was a box office
hit. Then the excited producers rushed into making a sequel without putting
any significant thought into it.
Naomi Watts and David Dorfman relive an old haunted scene in "The
Ring Two." Photo courtesy of DreamWorks Pictures
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“The Ring” introduces a single mother and her son who stumble
upon a haunted videotape that kills viewers seven days after they watch
it. Then the race is on to discover the mystery behind the tape in order
to save the cursed lives. That was new and exciting.
Other than some enhanced special effects, “The Ring Two” is
basically the same story set in a different town.
The evil spirit of Samara, who was thrown into a well and left to die
by her stepmother, still haunts and murders people through her video.
She follows previously haunted victims Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) and
her son Aidan (David Dorfman) to their new home in Astoria, Ore. In the
previous film, Samara is out to kill them. But this time, she wants to
possess Aidan’s body in an attempt to be loved by a real mother
figure through Rachel.
Again, there are flashbacks of Samara’s life, leading Rachel back
to Samara’s creepy childhood home, where the child was murdered,
to find clues that unlock the answer of how to rid her and her son from
Samara’s evil spirit forever.
Some of the ideas concocted in an attempt to scare viewers were so pathetic
they had people laughing at the movie rather than actually getting scared
by it. And the death scenes were so mild and vague that “Evil Dead,”
one of the best B-movies ever made, is more graphic and believable. OK,
so not really, but pretty close.
With a script horror movie fans could have written themselves, “The
Ring Two” failed at being a worthy successor to the original. For
those who have the curiosity to watch this film, wait until it comes out
on DVD.
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